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@si_fuller@aus.social From Mel B herself: ""It was actually a lazy journalist that couldn't be bothered to remember all our names, so he just gave us nicknames," Mel B said. "And we were like, 'Oh, well, that kind of works. I don't mind my name. Do you like your name? Baby? Posh?' We were like, 'Let's just go with it.'" "That "lazy journalist" was Peter Loraine, who was editor of the British magazine Top of the Pops and led the 1996 meeting in which the names were devised. "We laughed the most when we came up with Scary," Loraine has said. "Jennifer Cawthron, who was also from Leeds, came up with that one because Mel B was so loud and had tried to take over our whole photo shoot."" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mel-b-spice-girls-nicknames_n_55f85d6de4b0c2077efc42d7 So there you go. A couple of white British journalists (descendants of the people colonised Africa and also ran the trans-Atlantic slave trade) decided the Black woman was "scary" because she was loud and also voiced her opinions during a photo shoot.